Meetings

Monday, June 5,  6:00pm. Social Hour - 7:00pm meeting

This is an hybrid - both in-person and Zoom - meeting. In-person for those in the Janesville area.  Zoom for those who can't attend in person. The Zoom portion will sign in about 6:45. 

Please join us for the June German Interest Group meeting next Monday 5 June.

“Unusual Places to Find Births and Naturalizations”

This will be a Zoom meeting, but those of us in the Janesville area will be able to gather and watch it as a group at our traditional location:

St. Mark Lutheran Church located at 2921 Mt. Zion Avenue, Janesville, Wisconsin. 

The Zoom meeting will start at 7:00 with the social time before that.

Mark your calendar now:  a reminder with the Zoom link will follow.

About the speaker:

Debra M. Dudek is Head of Adult and Teen Services at the Fountaindale Public Library District in Bolingbrook, IL. She holds a post graduate certificate in Genealogical, Paleographic & Heraldic Studies from the University of Strathclyde in Glasgow, Scotland.

Check out her many other accomplishments on her web site   http://www.debradudek.com.

About the program: 

“Unusual Places to Find Births and Naturalizations”  

This lecture includes the evolution of these documents from the early colonial period through the Great War when they fell out of fashion, and the resurgence as tourist items in the 1950s.   

Future meetings:  first Monday of the month

August 7 Christine Cohen "Mysterious Codes: Passenger Manifests Letters and Numbers" 

Futurer Speakers

Note:  Meetings are held at 7:00 pm on the first Monday of the month except for January, July and September. GIG members will receive an email link to join the Zoom presentation prior to the meeting. Not a member? click here.

Currently we meet at 6:00 pm at St. Mark Lutheran Church located at 2921 Mt. Zion Avenue, Janesville, Wisconsin.  6pm social period. 7pm meeting.